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« on: April 14, 2021, 04:39:44 PM »

2040s' Atlas posters nostalgically reminiscing about the good old days of "solidly Republican Alaska & solidly Democratic Hawaii" and continuing the well-established tradition of bumping decade-old threads would probably qualify. "When my dad* was posting here, Alaska was safe R and Hawaii was safe D, so what’s your point? Obviously current trends won’t last forever."

*hopefully not!

(someone bump this in the 2040s to see if I was right or wrong)
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2021, 05:47:25 PM »

And it's just going to get more skewed until/unless TX left of the nation actually happens!

Unless the D margin in CA is cut in half and there’s a D collapse in New England and the Northeast by the late 2020s, I agree with this. TX will basically hold the key to any future realignment/seismic shift of electoral coalitions, not unlike the role it played as a bellwether in previous realignment periods (e.g. the Solid South, the 'New' R South). So much depends on whether it remains competitive-ish (with either a very slight D or, more likely, R lean) or whether it’s about where CA was at this point in 1986.

In terms of a state undergoing a really dramatic ideological shift, then UT going from one of the most reliably 60%+ R states in the nation to a progressive stronghold in little more than a decade or two would fit the bill even more than AK & HI and would arguably represent one of the most rapid electoral transitions in the nation's history.
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